tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post5835193990820654108..comments2018-05-24T12:33:52.277-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: "Let them eat chocolate cake" Deuce ☂noreply@blogger.comBlogger59125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-36515809304889346062017-06-26T14:23:19.099-04:002017-06-26T14:23:19.099-04:00If you need your ex-girlfriend or ex-boyfriend to ...If you need your ex-girlfriend or ex-boyfriend to come crawling back to you on their knees (no matter why you broke up) you must watch this video<br />right away...<br /><br /><a href="http://relationships.syntaxlinks.com/r/TextYourExBack" rel="nofollow"><b>(VIDEO) Get your ex back with TEXT messages?</b></a>Bloggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07287821785570247118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-12866970046298741292017-04-19T04:57:35.686-04:002017-04-19T04:57:35.686-04:00Venison was a Deer.Venison was a Deer.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-18220261039028433632017-04-19T04:02:27.558-04:002017-04-19T04:02:27.558-04:00Vinson was a Democrat.Vinson was a Democrat.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-66857561516841783672017-04-19T03:33:43.543-04:002017-04-19T03:33:43.543-04:00Oops. Bumbling our way to Armageddon -
Oops: Airc...Oops. Bumbling our way to Armageddon -<br /><br /><b>Oops: Aircraft carrier which was supposedly en route to North Korea was actually headed to Indian Ocean</b><br />POSTED AT 4:01 PM ON APRIL 18, 2017 BY ALLAHPUNDIT<br /><br /><br />It’s easy to fool the enemy about the location of your warships. Only a highly sophisticated military power can succeed at fooling itself.<br /><br />No harm, no foul, I guess, but note that none of the sources are claiming that this was deliberate deception. Apparently it was a genuine screw-up. Imagine if North Korea, spooked by reports of a U.S. armada approaching the coast, had tested a nuke or even attacked South Korea, and the U.S. … did nothing, because it didn’t have its military assets in place. Headline: “NEW KOREAN WAR BEGINS AFTER U.S. ANNOUNCES PHANTOM DEPLOYMENT.” How do you think Trump’s approval rating would be doing today?<br /><br />As worries deepened last week about whether North Korea would conduct a missile test, the White House declared that ordering an American aircraft carrier into the Sea of Japan would send a powerful deterrent signal and give President Trump more options in responding to the North’s provocative behavior.<br /><br />The problem was, the carrier, the Carl Vinson, and the four other warships in its strike force were at that very moment sailing in the opposite direction, to take part in joint exercises with the Australian Navy in the Indian Ocean, 3,500 miles southwest of the Korean Peninsula.<br /><br />White House officials said on Tuesday they were relying on guidance from the Defense Department. Officials there described a glitch-ridden sequence of events, from a premature announcement of the deployment by the military’s Pacific Command to an erroneous explanation by Defense Secretary Jim Mattis — all of which perpetuated the false narrative that an American armada was racing toward the waters off North Korea.<br />“Wrong-Way Trump,” they’re calling him. Well, no, not yet. But probably soon.<br /><br />The jig was finally up yesterday when, er, the Navy posted a photo taken Saturday of the Vinson off the coast of Indonesia. The Times itself reported the phantom deployment to Korean waters on April 9th citing a statement by the head of the Navy’s Pacific Command: “The Vinson and three guided-missile destroyers and cruisers steamed out of Singapore on Saturday [April 8th] for their new mission in the Western Pacific.” A press release posted on Pacific Command’s website on April 10th seemed to confirm that, noting that the Vinson “will operate in the Western Pacific rather than executing previously planned port visits to Australia.” And yet, five days later, the ship was still cruising around Indonesia. When exactly did Trump and Mattis find out that their “armada” wasn’t where they thought it was? That failed North Korean missile test happened two days ago, on the 16th, when the Vinson was supposed to be in the area, but wasn’t.<br /><br />The ship is now reportedly finally en route towards North Korea. A new question for the White House: If the NorKs keep their promise to start testing missiles weekly, do we make a statement by shooting one down? The THAAD anti-missile system based in South Korea could do it, but that’s still reportedly a few weeks away from being operational. The Aegis system could also do it, but those missiles are based on destroyers — like the ones in the Vinson’s strike group, which isn’t yet in the vicinity of North Korea. Here’s Trump last Wednesday talking about the “very powerful” armada he’s sending to watch Kim. Where did he think the ships were when he said this?<br /><br />13h<br /> Bradd Jaffy ✔ @BraddJaffy<br />WH said Trump was sending a powerful message to North Korea… but U.S. warships were headed in the opposite direction http://nyti.ms/2peptL0 pic.twitter.com/qJ6Z4uqrjM<br /> Follow<br /> Bradd Jaffy ✔ @BraddJaffy<br />Trump on North Korea, a week ago: “We are sending an armada. Very powerful…”<br />11:21 AM - 18 Apr 2017<br /><br />http://hotair.com/archives/2017/04/18/oops-aircraft-carrier-supposedly-en-route-north-korea-actually-headed-indian-ocean/Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-5827647998757979142017-04-19T03:22:37.616-04:002017-04-19T03:22:37.616-04:00O wonderful -
April 19, 2017
Could North Korea De...O wonderful -<br /><br />April 19, 2017<br /><b>Could North Korea Destroy the US?</b><br />By Daniel John Sobieski<br /><br />As both Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has stated, the Clinton-Obama era of “strategic patience” with North Korea is over. The usual suspects in the mainstream media have been warning that Trump is provoking Pyongyang into war on the Korean peninsula. The counter is that the administration isn’t willing to wait till North Korea has the operational capability to nuke an American city like Seattle or Honolulu.<br /><br />What is not being discussed is a much bigger and more imminent threat which makes action imperative, an existential one for the United States. <br /><br /><br />The nightmare scenario of an America sent back centuries in time before electricity, refrigeration, and smart phones has grown unnervingly closer with the presence of two North Korean satellites with orbits over a blissfully unaware American populace and an Obama administration that was indifferent to the apocalyptic threat of an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack.<br /><br />On Feb. 7, 2016, North Korea launched a second satellite, the KMS-4, to join their KMS-3 satellite launched in December of 2012. In an article in the Washington Times on April 24, 2016, R. James Woolsey, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and Peter Vincent Fry, executive director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security as well as director of the Nuclear Strategy Forum, both congressional advisory boards, warned of the dangers of an apocalyptic EMP attack that these and similar satellites pose:<br /><br />Both satellites now are in south polar orbits, evading many U.S. missile defense radars and flying over the United States from the south, where our defenses are limited. Both satellites -- if nuclear armed -- could make an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack that could blackout the U.S. electric grid for months or years, thereby killing millions.<br /><br />Technologically, such an EMP attack is easy -- since the weapon detonates at high-altitude, in space, no shock absorbers, heat shield, or vehicle for atmospheric re-entry is necessary. Since the radius of the EMP is enormous, thousands of kilometers, accuracy matters little. Almost any nuclear weapon will do.<br /><br />Moreover, North Korea probably has nuclear weapons specially designed, not to make a big explosion, but to emit lots of gamma rays to generate high-frequency EMP. Senior Russian generals warned EMP Commissioners in 2004 that their EMP nuclear warhead design leaked “accidentally” to North Korea, and unemployed Russian scientists found work in North Korea’s nuclear weapons program....<br /><br />http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/04/could_north_korea_destroy_the_us.html<br /><br />Maybe we are living in hell ?<br /><br />Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-83206533101350374962017-04-19T02:03:48.515-04:002017-04-19T02:03:48.515-04:00#BLACK PEOPLE LEGO#BLACK PEOPLE LEGODoughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-62246387574693358172017-04-19T02:01:12.095-04:002017-04-19T02:01:12.095-04:00Yep, that&#39;s what happened,
Honest.Yep, that&#39;s what happened,<br /><br />Honest.<br /><br />Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-3899430407623141412017-04-19T02:00:29.893-04:002017-04-19T02:00:29.893-04:00With Democrat Jon Ossoff Winning “Rare Data Error”...<b>With Democrat Jon Ossoff Winning “Rare Data Error” Delays Georgia Special Election Results</b><br /><br />&quot;The current occupant of the White House spent a month discrediting the US elections while working with the Russians during the 2016 campaign, <br /><br />...so if the American people want their elections to once again be a shining example of democracy, they are going to have to take matters into their own hands, run for state and local office, and fix this problem themselves.&quot;<br /><br />http://www.politicususa.com/2017/04/19/democrat-jon-ossoff-winning-rare-data-error-delays-georgia-special-election-results.htmlDoughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-45781336335635948282017-04-19T01:49:50.486-04:002017-04-19T01:49:50.486-04:00He wants Black Peopl Lego, what&#39;s wrong with a...He wants Black Peopl Lego, what&#39;s wrong with advocating for Black Lego toys?Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-3451895492639830092017-04-19T01:41:41.936-04:002017-04-19T01:41:41.936-04:00If Muhammad is indeed a member of the Nation of Is...If Muhammad is indeed a member of the Nation of Islam, he demonstrates yet again how members of the Nation of Islam, even though orthodox Sunni and Shia Muslims consider the Nation a heretical sect, can identify with the global jihad, and place themselves in its service. The most notorious example of this is the Beltway Sniper, John Allen Muhammad, who along with his accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, murdered seventeen people in sniper attacks in the Washington, D.C. area in October 2002. Muhammad had joined the Nation of Islam in 1987; Malvo was discovered to have kept notebooks in which he drew portraits of Osama bin Laden and other jihadis and declared his determination to wage jihad himself.<br /><br />When Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan spoke at the Nation’s annual gathering in Detroit last February, attendees greeted him with thunderous cries of “Allahu akbar” and listened raptly as Farrakhan railed against not against the Nation’s bogey, white people, but against the Jews: “I want to disabuse the Jews today of the false claim that you are the chosen of God — that Israel or Palestine belongs to you. I want to disabuse you of that. I’m going to tell you about your future. You that think you have power to frighten and dominate the peoples of the world. I’m here to announce the end of your time.”<br /><br />He has, of course, spoken this way many times before. That Farrakhan would so often use the platform of his racist cult to attack the Jews suggests that he is interested in currying favor with mainstream Muslims who are well aware of how deeply embedded anti-Semitism is in the Qur’an. Orthodox Islam does not blame the evils of the world on white people, but the Nation’s Jew-hatred is certainly mainstream Islam, and an indication of how the Nation is often a way station: African-American men convert to it and then pass from it into orthodox Sunni groups, or turn to jihad even without doing so. Kori Ali Muhammad is just the latest example of this.<br /><br />If authorities ever decide that the random shooting of three non-Muslims by a Muslim screaming “Allahu akbar” might possibly be terrorism, they might begin investigations that would make all this clear to them and help them prevent it from happening in the future. But nothing seems much less likely.<br /><br />https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/266446/muslim-screaming-allahu-akbar-murders-three-fresno-robert-spencerBobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-73442186161487379782017-04-19T01:41:23.650-04:002017-04-19T01:41:23.650-04:00MUSLIM SCREAMING “ALLAHU AKBAR” MURDERS THREE IN F...<b>MUSLIM SCREAMING “ALLAHU AKBAR” MURDERS THREE IN FRESNO</b><br /><i>As usual, authorities aren’t sure whether or not it’s terrorism.</i><br />April 19, 2017 Robert Spencer <br /><br /><br />On Tuesday morning around 10:45AM, a Muslim named Kori Ali Muhammad walked through Fresno, California, shooting three men dead at random, including one in the parking lot of Catholic Charities. When he was arrested, he screamed “Allahu akbar.” According to the local ABC station, Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer “indicated it was ‘still too early’ to know if the shootings were an act of terrorism.”<br /><br />Of course. And for those who refuse to acknowledge the nature or magnitude of the Islamic jihad against the West, it will always be too early, even if Kori Ali Muhammad presents Dyer with an ISIS membership card and a letter signed by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi commanding him to carry out this attack. In this case, the familiar dance of denial by non-Muslim authorities intent on absolving Islam of all responsibility for the crimes done in its name and in accord with its teachings is not the central lesson of the attack – that sad charade has played out all too often in the past, and will many more times in the future, and there is nothing new to say about it.<br /><br />The key story in the murders committed by Kori Ali Muhammad is that they constitute a jihad attack carried out by an apparent member of the Nation of Islam, the racist black supremacist pseudo-Islamic group headed by Louis Farrakhan. According to the Los Angeles Times, “a Facebook profile page for a Kori Ali Muhammad from Fresno paid homage to black pride and black nationalism, with images of the red, green and black Pan-African flag and images of a raised fist. The page listed him as a ‘warrior’ for RBG Nation, referencing red, black and green.”<br /><br />What’s more, “in recent days, he repeatedly posted images to his frenetic Facebook page with the hashtag #LETBLACKPEOPLEGO. He referenced ‘white devils’ and praised melanoma skin cancer. In a post Monday, he wrote in all caps: ‘MY KILL RATE INCREASES TREMENDOUSLY ON THE OTHER SIDE ASÈ ALLAH U AKBAR.’ Shortly before that, he posted: ‘BLACK WARRIORS MOUNT UP AND RIDE OUT *ASÈ* #LETBLACKPEOPLEGO.’” Ase, according to the Times, “is a term from the Yoruba people of Nigeria, referencing a concept that there is power in our spirituality, words and feelings.” Muhammad also referred to “white devils” and the Nation of Islam’s mythical evil figure who created white people, Mr. Yakub.<br /><br /><br /> <br />Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-70259898665876900342017-04-19T00:08:41.111-04:002017-04-19T00:08:41.111-04:00Bad Reviews For Trump&#39;s Korea Policy
Except in...<br /><b>Bad Reviews For Trump&#39;s Korea Policy</b><br /><i>Except in, um, Korea.</i><br />11:02 AM, APR 18, 2017 | By ETHAN EPSTEIN<br /> <br /><br />Vice President Mike Pence is briefed by U.S. Gen. Vincent Brooks from Observation Post Ouellette in the Demilitarized Zone near the border village of Panmunjom, South Korea on April 17, 2017.<br />Photo credit: Sipa via AP Images.<br /><br />The notices are in, and they&#39;re brutal. Donald Trump&#39;s nascent North Korea policy—announcing the end of &quot;strategic patience&quot; (Barack Obama&#39;s code for sitting around and doing nothing about the North&#39;s pursuit of nuclear weapons), leaning on China to rein in Pyongyang, strengthening sanctions, and issuing ambiguous threats about possible military strikes—is being panned by American foreign policy experts and journalists.<br /><br />The New York Times bemoans Trump&#39;s &quot;recklessness.&quot; Ishaan Tharoor, a Washington Post blogger with the modest remit of covering the entire world, warns of the &quot;dangers&quot; of Trump&#39;s policies. Even Ian Buruma, an expert on Dutch politics most famous for his bizarre attacks on the exceptionally brave Ayaan Hirsi Ali, has weighed in on Trump&#39;s approach to North Korea: Apparently it &quot;plays into North Korea&#39;s hands.&quot;<br /><br />And yet, the Trump approach is receiving plaudits precisely where it matters most: in South Korea.<br /><br />South Korea, perhaps because its population is among the world&#39;s oldest, remains a country dominated by print newspapers, which are highly influential. An official affiliated with the country&#39;s dominant conservative party estimates to me that more than half of Koreans still read a daily newspaper. And those newspapers&#39; editorial boards have praised Trump&#39;s North Korea policy.<br /><br />The Dong-a Ilbo, citing the Roman adage, &quot;if you want peace, prepare for war,&quot; warns American and South Korean officials not to take a military strike off the table: A &quot;&#39;no preemptive strike&#39; message would adversely affect the U.S. deterrence on the North&#39;s reckless provocation and send a wrong signal to Pyongyang,&quot; the newspaper argues. Earlier this month, the same newspaper praised the move to relist North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism, an action that, if enacted, will automatically reimpose several harsh sanctions on the regime.<br /><br /> Meanwhile, the Hankuk Ilbo celebrated Vice President Mike Pence&#39;s recent visit to South Korea, hailing two &quot;very important outcomes&quot;: a reaffirmation of the strong ties between South Korea and the United States, and Pence&#39;s &quot;clear message&quot; to Beijing that it must do more to stop North Korea. The Chosun Ilbo, meanwhile, the country&#39;s highest circulation daily, while cautioning against a pre-emptive strike, warns against pursuing the kind of diplomatic approach beloved by American journalists and self-proclaimed wonks:<br /><br />The North Korean nuclear impasse began in the early 1990s and has since gone through a vicious cycle of heightening tensions leading to talks and rewards, only to be followed by the North reneging on all its promises and ratcheting up tensions again. This was partly due to the U.S.&#39; focus on short-term, easily publicized achievements rather than seeking fundamental changes. The pattern must not be repeated.<br /> <br />At the same time, left-wing presidential candidate Moon Jae-in (the South will elect a new president on May 9), who supports &quot;engagement&quot; with North Korea, has suffered from recent slippage in the polls. He&#39;s losing ground to a centrist candidate who is making loud noises about his tough approach on Pyongyang and lambasting Moon&#39;s weakness on the issue.<br /><br />Could South Koreans know something that Ian Buruma doesn&#39;t?<br /><br />http://www.weeklystandard.com/bad-reviews-for-trumps-korea-policy.-except-in-korea./article/2007682Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-55139955078280643842017-04-18T23:55:46.684-04:002017-04-18T23:55:46.684-04:00The World Bank Group stands ready to assist Venezu...<i>The World Bank Group stands ready to assist Venezuela, a member and shareholder of the institution, if the government asks for help in dealing with a punishing economic crisis, the bank&#39;s top executive for Latin America said.</i>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-90419105297721322312017-04-18T23:49:19.682-04:002017-04-18T23:49:19.682-04:00Kim Fatty III
:)<i>Kim Fatty III</i><br /><br />:)samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-18733291909119695532017-04-18T23:43:49.989-04:002017-04-18T23:43:49.989-04:00What is the difference between the lethality of a ...What is the difference between the lethality of a Syrian barrel bomb or a US 15,000 pound Daisy Cutter bomb that destroys anything in a 600-yard radius? We used daisy cutters in Viet Nam, on Iraqis in the Gulf War and in Afghanistan. We used napalm.<br /><br />The US used white phosphorous in Fallujah and Israeli has used them in Palestine and Lebanon. We just used a 30,000 lb. precision guided bomb with 5300 lbs. of explosive in Afghanistan. We used an AC-130 in Afghanistan on a hospital with Gatling guns and a 75mm howitzer.<br /><br />As to barrel bombs, we used 388,000 tons of napalm in Viet Nam. All delivered in aerodynamic canisters or barrels.<br /> Napalm is a &quot;barrel bomb&quot; loaded with plastic polystyrene, hydrocarbon benzene, and gasoline. Napalm burns at 2000° F. <br /><br />I think we can all agree we are the greatest and world leader at barrel bombs<br />Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-14433773680188683802017-04-18T23:29:48.961-04:002017-04-18T23:29:48.961-04:00Venezuela is well on the way to seriously attackin...Venezuela is well on the way to seriously attacking its obesity problem as well.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-85891781709005953312017-04-18T23:18:45.681-04:002017-04-18T23:18:45.681-04:00Kim Jong-un so fat he can’t walk
North Korean dict...<br /><b>Kim Jong-un so fat he can’t walk</b><br />North Korean dictator has weight, health problems<br /><br />FILE - In this May 10, 2016, file photo, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un waves at parade participants at the Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korea is marking Kim Jong Un&#39;s birthday Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017 in a decidedly low-key manner. Though the young leader&#39;s birthday is well-known throughout the country, it has yet to be celebrated with the kind of adulatory festivities that accompany the birthdays of his late grandfather and father. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)<br /><br />FILE - In this May 10, 2016, file photo, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un waves at parade participants at the Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korea is marking Kim Jong Un’s birthday Sunday, Jan. 8, ... more &gt;<br /> <br />By L. Todd Wood - - Wednesday, January 18, 2017<br /><br />North Korea’s dictator has been packing on the pounds. It seems he has a lust for cheese and pleasure squads of young Korean girls. In December, he was shown limping, favoring his right leg, in further evidence of ill health, during a state media video showing him visiting a shoe factory. He has had problems with his left leg before.<br /><br />“Kim’s leg injuries have been linked to obesity in the past and recent pictures show the Korean leader appears to have put on extra weight. His waistline has grown during his rule over North Korea apparently because of his love for cheese. Aside from gaining 90 pounds in four years, he also is rumored to be a heavy smoker, which doesn’t bode well for his health,” reports the International Business Times.<br />“At the current stage, it is premature to talk about the state of Kim’s health,” Jeong Joon-hee, South Korea’s unification ministry spokesman, told a regular press briefing.<br /><br />“There is a need to closely watch related information,” reports The Korea Herald. It is speculated however that his ankle problems occur from obesity.<br /><br />He underwent a procedure to remove a cyst from his left ankle in 2014 and extra weight may be preventing the condition from healing properly.<br /><br />Last year, the Chinese government blocked web searches for Kim Fatty the Third after North Korean government representatives made an official complaint.<br /><br />http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jan/18/kim-jong-un-so-fat-he-cant-walk/Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-88776060460277870842017-04-18T23:12:51.718-04:002017-04-18T23:12:51.718-04:00British Olympian: North Korea has really got a “ha...<b>British Olympian: North Korea has really got a “handle on obesity”</b><br />POSTED AT 5:01 PM ON APRIL 18, 2017 BY ALLAHPUNDIT<br /><br /><br />The first time I watched I thought he was making a rhetorical point about how no country in the world really has a “handle” on obesity. Only the communist countries, North Korea and Cuba, have succeeded, and they did it by solving the problem of abundant food.<br /><br />But no, upon a second viewing, I think he’s sincere. His point, it seems, is that government should lead the fight against obesity and that may require being “controlling on behavioral change.” The only two countries that seem to have figured that out are North Korea and Cuba. Which, yeah — he’s not wrong. When it comes to state control of public behavior, those two really could teach you a thing or two.<br /><br />This guy is running for parliament as a <i>conservative</i>.<br /><br />He apologized afterward, sort of:<br /><br />19h<br /> Sky News ✔ @SkyNews<br />.@jamescracknell says North Korea is one of only two countries in the world that has &quot;a handle on obesity&quot; pic.twitter.com/A71191QRCJ<br /> Follow<br /> James Cracknell ✔ @jamescracknell<br />@SkyNews Yeah, sorry guys. I take it on the chin. Trying to make a point that came out badly.<br />1:55 AM - 18 Apr 2017<br /> 19 19 Retweets 98 98 likes<br /><br />Exit question: Does Kim Jong-un really have a handle on obesity? Honestly.<br /><br />http://hotair.com/archives/2017/04/18/british-olympian-north-korea-really-got-handle-obesity/Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-62610071933948166242017-04-18T22:51:56.962-04:002017-04-18T22:51:56.962-04:00Boris Johnson yesterday likened Syrian president B...<i>Boris Johnson yesterday likened Syrian president Bashar al-Assad to a ‘monster’ that needs ‘decapitating’.<br /><br />...<br /><br />The cabinet minister went on: &#39;I hope I have the support of everybody in this House when I say I call on the Russians to end their blind support for Assad.<br /><br />&#39;Stop the gas attacks and the barrel bombs, allow the delivery of aid to those who need it, deliver a real ceasefire and begin the political process that will include a transition away from Assad.&#39;</i>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-13889137499418144952017-04-18T22:27:04.495-04:002017-04-18T22:27:04.495-04:00Probly some Methodist Meth head:
‘God is great’
...<b>Probly some Methodist Meth head:<br /><br /> ‘God is great’</b><br /><br /><b>Fake News Media Covers For Fresno Terrorist, Omits ‘Allahu Akbar’ From Report</b><br /><br />The Associated Press did everything possible to make sure that their article about the Fresno terrorist named Kori Muhammad didn’t come off as Islamic terrorist attack.<br /><br />Muhammad killed 3 people today, targeted whites and a Catholic charity and screamed ‘Allahu Akbar!’. The Associated Press decided to put that he shouted ‘God is great’ instead of the Arabic ‘Allahu Akbar’. <br /><br />Some may argue that it means the same thing, however; the Arabic profession of ‘Allahu Akbar’ is a war cry and carries great significance.<br /><br />http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/04/fake-news-media-covers-fresno-terrorist-omits-allahu-akbar-report/Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-24773319646217193682017-04-18T22:11:22.908-04:002017-04-18T22:11:22.908-04:00Assad is, I think we would all agree, great at bar...Assad is, I think we would all agree, great at barrels bombs.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-54834793762740420182017-04-18T22:09:42.697-04:002017-04-18T22:09:42.697-04:00In both cases, the use of gas was nearly universal...In both cases, the use of gas was nearly universally condemned. After the Ypres attack became public knowledge, London’s Daily Mirror issued a banner headline describing the horror—“Devilry, Thy Name Is Germany”—then repeated the theme in bold type more than 100 years later, after Khan Shaykhun: “Assad Gassing Kids Again.” The “again” was a not-so-veiled editorial comment, for Khan Shaykhun marked the second time Assad had used sarin to kill civilians; the first incident took place in August 2013, when the Syrian regime used the nerve agent in an attack on Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus, killing an estimated 281 to 1,700 civilians (the numbers remain uncertain) while injuring thousands. The pictures of the victims, caught in the throes of their final moments, shocked the world.<br /><br />President Donald Trump, who hadn’t previously shown much concern for Syrian civilians, said the April 4 gas attack had changed his “attitude” toward Assad, and he ordered a missile strike on the airfield where the sarin had been stored. Trump’s turnabout stunned many observers, and it prompted some to wonder why, exactly, chemical weapons triggered a U.S. response when the vast majority of the half-million or so Syrians who have died in the country’s civil war were slaughtered by conventional means. Why, in other words, do we ban chemical weapons, but not equally deadly weapons like machine guns that rip through bodies and barrel bombs that tear them apart?<br /><br />One answer is that while gas attacks are terrifying, the weapon has proved to be militarily ineffective....<br /><br /><br />....Whatever was really behind Hitler’s reluctance, it confirms what advocates for the banning of certain classes of weapons have suspected for years—that the world’s militaries are loath to ban weapons that kill effectively, while acceding to bans of weapons that they don’t need. Put another way, military leaders agreed to the banning of poison gas in 1925 not because it was horrifyingly effective, but because it wasn’t....<br /><br />http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/04/why-the-world-banned-chemical-weapons-215023Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-34008882542674987582017-04-18T22:09:19.189-04:002017-04-18T22:09:19.189-04:00The reason poison gas has been &#39;outlawed&#39; ...The reason poison gas has been &#39;outlawed&#39; it that it is ineffective.<br /><br />Barrel bombs are better, artillery too. B-52&#39;s, wonderful.<br /><br /><b>Why the World Banned Chemical Weapons</b><br /><i>Yes, it’s because they’re morally hideous. But it’s also because they don’t work.</i><br />By MARK PERRY April 13, 2017<br /><br />On the late afternoon of April 22, 1915—in the midst of World War I—Algerian and French soldiers in trenches along the Western Front, near the Belgian town of Ypres, noticed a yellowish-green fog drifting toward them. Believing the cloud masked advancing German infantrymen, the soldiers prepared for an attack. In fact, the cloud was chlorine gas, released by the Germans from 6,000 pressurized cylinders. The gas crept forward, then lapped into the allied trenches in a ghostly tide. The effect was immediate: Thousands of soldiers choked and clutched at their throats, unable to breathe, before falling dead; thousands more fled in panic, opening a four-mile gap in the allied lines.<br /><br />The Ypres attack was not the first time gas was used in the conflict (both the French and Germans had used tear gas earlier in the war), but it was the first time in the conflict that a poisonous gas was used in mass quantities. The effects of the attack were horrific, causing “a burning sensation in the head, red-hot needles in the lungs, the throat seized as by a strangler,” as one soldier later described it. More than 5,000 soldiers were killed in this first gas attack, while thousands more, stumbling to the rear and frothing at the mouth, suffered the debilitating aftereffects for decades.<br /><br /><br />What took place earlier this month, in Syria’s Idlib province, had the same effect as the gas used at Ypres, as Syrian-flown SU-22 jets released bombs filled with sarin gas near the town of Khan Shaykhun. The attack killed dozens of Syrian civilians, including 11 children. The effects of the sarin, a deadly nerve agent, were similar to those of 1915: The victims choked and vomited as their lungs constricted, then suffered through tormenting muscle spasms and eventual death.<br /><br />Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-69914206070027740102017-04-18T21:55:00.190-04:002017-04-18T21:55:00.190-04:00Bottom line. There is no question that a crime has...Bottom line. There is no question that a crime has been committed. Based on all that I have read, the assertion that Assad did it, is incorrect. It fills an agenda but is factually not true and perversely, by not investigating further, the real criminals are getting away with murder.Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-56229459671794282992017-04-18T21:50:36.213-04:002017-04-18T21:50:36.213-04:00...that’s still an incomplete picture. The dubious......<i>that’s still an incomplete picture. The dubious or untrue stories Syria is to be “held to account” over seem to conceal genuine crimes, the authors of which remain free and unindicted by the U.S.-led “world community.” In fact they would have been rewarded for their use of banned chemicals and banned methods, as the crimes are being systematically blamed on the shared enemy in Damascus, maintaining the moral basis of supporting the armed insurgency. And the supposed watchdogs at the UN and OPCW, naturally, seem hard-wired to not receive this big picture and acknowledge the immense crimes they may have been party to all this time. Until something in this picture changes, we’re locked on course for more of the same.<br /><br /></i><br /><br />http://www.globalresearch.ca/analysis-of-evidence-contradicts-allegations-on-syrian-gas-attacks/5584570Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.com